The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
BILL NYEs NEW TEETH.
biH's Journalistic Young Son Writes
Piece About How to Rear Children.

| DA<A ~ Il . NEW lEE<Ins
Bfn,s Journalistic Young SON Writes .
Piece About How to Rear Children.
DEAR HENRY: Your last issue O,
the Retind, your new thought vehicle,
published at New Belony, was received
yesterday. like this number, / think,
better than did the first While the
| news in il seems fresher, the editorial
assertions are not so fresh. You do
| not state that you ..have come to stay
this week, but l infer that you occupy
the same position you did last week
with reference to that
i was more especially interested in
your piece about how to rear children
and the care of parents l lad it 10
your mother last night while she was
setting her bread. Nothing tickles me
very often at my time of life, and when
| laugh a loud peal of laughter at any
thing nowadays it's got to be pretty
blamed good thing, can tell you that
But your piece about bringing up chill
dren made me laugh real hard. i en-
joy piece like that from the pen of a
juicy young brain like yours. 1t al
most made me young again to read the
words of my journalistic gosling son.
You also say that .'teething is the
most trying time for parents" Do you
mean that parents are more fretful
when they are teething than any other
time? Your mother and me reckoned
that You must mean that. If so, it
shows your great research. How a
mere child hardly out of knee-panties.
young shoot like you, who was
never parent for a moment in his life,
can enter into and understand the
woes that beset parents is more than l
can understand. If you had been
through what | have while teething 1
could see how you might understand
and write about it, but at present / do
not see through it. The first teeth /
cut as parent made me very restless.
was sick two years ago with new
disease that was just out and the doctor
gave me something for it that made
my teeth fall like the leaves of autumn.
In six weeks after began to convalesce
my mouth was perfectly bald headed
For days l didn't bite into a Ben
Davis apple that didn't leave a fang
into it.
Well, after that saw an advertise
ment in the Rural Rustler-a paper /
used to take then-of place where
you could get set of teeth for &c. l
didn't want to buy a high-priced and
gaudy set of teeth at the tail end of
such life as l had led, and 1 knew
that teeth, no matter how expensive
they might be, would be of little avail
TO coming generations, so | went over
to the place named in the paper and
got an impression of my mouth taken.
There is really nothing in this life
that will take the stiff-neeked pride out
of man like viewing plaster cast of
his tottering mouth. The dentist fed
me with large ladle full of putty or
plaster of paris, reckon, and told me
to hold it in my mouth till it set.
/ don't remember time in all my
life when the earth and transitory
things ever looked so undesirable and
so trifiing as they did while / sat there
in that big red barber-chair with my
mouth full of cold putty. l felt just
as man might when he is being tax
idermied.
After awhile the dentist took out the
cast. 1t was cloudy day and so it
didn't look much like me after all If
it had l would have sent you one.
After I'd set again two or three times,
we got a pretty fair likeness, he said,
and l went home. having paid Sc and
left my address
Three weeks after that small boy
came with my new teeth.
They were nice, white, shiny teeth,
and did not look very ghastly after |
had become used to them. Iwished at
first that the gums had been a duller
red and that the teeth had not looked
so new. put them in my mouth. but
they felt cold and distant l took
them out and warmed themi the sun
tight People going by no doubt
thought that / did it to show that
was able to have new teeth, but that
was not the case.
/ wore them all that forenoon while
l butchered. There were times during
the forenoon when / wanted to take
them out, but when a man is butcher
ing he hates to take his teeth out just
because they hurt.
But, oh, how it relieved me at night
to take those teeth out and put them
on the top of cool bureau, where the
wind could blow through their whisk-
ers! How / hated to resume them in
the morning and start in on another
long day, when the roof of my mouth
felt like big red bunion and my
gums like pale red stone bruise.
A year ago, Henry, about two-thirty
in the afternoon, think it was, left
that set of teeth in the rare flank of a
barbecue l was to in our town.
Since then / have no more unicorns
on the rafters of my mouth and my
note is just as good at thirty days as
| ever it was.
You are right, Henry, when you GO
on to state in your paper that teething
is the most trying time for parents
Ia ia, as the feller says.
Your FATHER
Bill Nye, in Chicago Neaos.